Create a database, as easily as a spreadsheet

Fieldbook is super versatile and powerful. It's like spreadsheets on steroids. You can easily customize it to your own needs and workflow. It comes with a powerful API to further extend the functionality.

Adam Teece- Marketing Scientist, MarketingLabs.co

I just learned about Fieldbook and it seems great. Just like Excel but you can link notebooks, and columns etc to be more relational database style.

Realtime spreadsheet-database hybrid

Airtable is great for organizing all kinds of data. Personal CRM, shopping list, work projects etc. It feels like the next generation of Excel.

Katri Manninen

I use Airtable for everything from automagically tracking my day to planning a television series that I'm writing.

Carson Jones- Zero Fourths a Doctor

I recently switched my freelance work from Trello to Airtable, and I'm glad I did. Airtable is more data-first, is more flexible, and comes with more free storage.
In Airtable, you can enter "objects" (tasks, projects, assets, etc) into a large spreadsheet and then build multiple views on-top of that data. For example, if you had a spreadsheet full of task…See more

Grandma, sometimes you cannot remember things, so just write everything down in a notebook, keep it safe. Then call your assistant TablePlus to read the book for you, and rewrite it if you want. Well, actually, TablePlus is an app and it works on computer only.

Tung Thanh- Vietpiczzle

It's the best for relational database, native build, lightning fast and very handy query editor

Riyadh Al Nur- Full-stack Software Engineer @ Jirnexu

The UI is great and easy to work with. Also worth mentioning is it's very fast.

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Recently, while developing TablePlus, we researched about SSH tunneling technology. After testing several database tools which supported ssh tunneling, we discovered that your connection might be leaked until you disconnected from internet or shut down your machine. The leak is caused by using open-ssh to create a tunneling.

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